"Put-up" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Jervase, 'they haven't got any evidence agen you any more than they have agen me. The whole thing's a put-up job. If it was De Blacquaire's doing, he'd have gone for me rather than for you, because he always hated me, and I've put him down more than once or twice at Petty Sessions, and taught him to know his ...
— VC — A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea • David Christie Murray
... sir, a put-up job on a pore young man like me; And the jury was bribed a puppos, and at furst they couldn't agree; And I sed to the judge, sez I,—Oh, grin! it's all right, my son! But you're a werry lively young pup, and you ain't to be ...
— Complete Poetical Works of Bret Harte • Bret Harte |
